The history of local resource management of forests, water, land, and pastures in the upper Duero basin of Spain from the Reconquest to the liberal administrative reforms of the nineteenth century is discussed.
Environment and History (journal)
"Co-Management of Natural Resources: The Long View from Northwestern Spain"
"From Myths to Rules: The Evolution of Local Management in the Amazonian Floodplain"
This paper focuses on historical analysis of the local management of the Brazilian Amazonian floodplain.
"Medieval Slash-and-Burn Cultivation: Strategic or Adapted Land Use in the Swedish Mining District?"
The general view in Swedish historiography of an inherent conflict between iron-making and the practice of slash-and-burn is questioned on the basis of this palaeoecological case study of repeated slash-and-burn cultivation from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries in a mining district of central Sweden.
"Histories of Protected Areas: Internationalisation of Conservationist Values and their Adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)"
Based on a review of international conservation literature, three inter-related themes are explored: a) the emergence in the 1860–1910 period of new worldviews on the human-nature relationship in western culture; b) the emergence of new conservation values and the translation of these into public policy goals; and 3) the adoption of these policies by the Netherlands Indies government.
"Floating Timber in Northern Sweden: The Construction of Floatways and Transformation of Rivers"
The aim of this study is to analyse the transformation of one river in boreal Sweden, the Vindelalven, during 1820–1945, caused by the introduction of large scale floating of timber.
"Everything Circulates: Agricultural Chemistry and Recycling Theories in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century"
This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
"Extreme Weather and the Energy Metabolism of the City"
The author uses a critical realist perspective to investigate relations between social constructions and the dynamics of nature.
"Subaltern Environmentalism in the United States: A Historiographic Review"
The counter-hegemonic struggle for ecological democracy is one of the fastest growing social movements in contemporary society, and requires the attention of environmental historians to situate it within the broader context of the history of environmentalism.
"Did they Really Hate Trees? Attitudes of Farmers, Tourists and Naturalists towards Nature in the Rainforests of Eastern Australia"
Feelings of hatred, fear and alienation towards the Australian environment have been amongst the major themes of Australian history. Farmers especially have been characterised as hating trees, particularly in the densely treed, difficult to clear rainforests of eastern Australia…
"The Limits of Agricultural Growth in the Nineteenth Century: A Case Study from the Mediterranean World"
With reference to the principle of Coevolution between Nature and Society and the nineteenth-century Spanish agricultural sector, this paper aims to verify a fundamental hypothesis and, in so doing, suggest a new way of looking at the past of Mediterranean agriculture and its late incorporation into the more advanced agricultural world.